Denigrative in a sentence as an adjective

This isn't denigrative of democracy at all, despite the flowery rhetoric. It just leads to better outcomes, as Putnam's paper outlines.

In particular the comment isn't denigrative of China at all. In fact, making opposite statements would arguably be more denigrative.

Denigrative definitions

adjective

(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

See also: calumniatory calumnious defamatory denigrating denigratory libellous libelous slanderous